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Reviewing the images from the urban park scene

Reviewing the images from the urban park scene

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Reviewing the images from the urban park scene

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- All right, the High Line, well, it's not technically the street. It's technically an old railroad track that was changed into a urban park or urban space but it's street photography because people are wandering through, there's all kinds of interesting things. Now, the pace is a lot slower at the High line park so I had a different strategy. Obviously I didn't have my long lens. I took with me my mirror-less camera because it's small, it's quiet, it's got a reticulating screen. I can kinda be sneaky. I can go up to people and I can take their picture and they don't know that I'm taking their picture or even if they do know as long as they're okay with it, I just keep shooting. I don't engage them, this is the candid street shooter. I'm not really trying to make friends here. I want to capture some strong images of the world as it happens. So, when I got to the High Line park, this was the first picture that I ended up taking. A gentleman working out there, great work-space. Wish…

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